First off, I never said the woman was crazy. You’re the one talking about mental illness running in the family. I don’t think she was crazy at all. I think something horrible happened to her. And I didn’t say she was shot. I said she was bleeding. And over time, cumulative blood loss can lead to shock. Just as a blow to the head could lead her to take erratic things. If it was a physical attack, she might have also suffered a blow to the head. I said at least three times why she wouldn’t have gone to the neighbor’s. If this involves some sort of thing that would bring shame (or even charges in that day) upon her and her family, like, say a botched abortion, she might have felt that she couldn’t ask for help. As I said before, it was a benighted age in America. Or it might be that she didn’t seek help in the “logical” fashion because she had suffered a blow to the head, as mentioned above. You took my “gunshot” thing too literally.